Learn all about Codecs--how they work, as well as design and implementation with this comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to compression. After reading this book, you will be able to prepare and distribute professional audio and video on any platform including streamed to the web, broadcast on-air, stored in PVRs, Burned onto CD-ROMs or DVDs, delivered by broadband, or viewed in Kiosk applications, PDA devices, and mobile phones.

With the explosion of new audio and video content on the Web, it's more important than ever to use accurate and comprehensive metadata to get the most out of that content. Developing Quality Metadata is an advanced user guide that will help you improve your metadata by making it accurate and coherent with your own solutions. This book is designed to get you thinking about solving problems in a proactive and productive way by including practical descriptions of powerful programming tools and user techniques using several programming languages. For example, you can use shell scripting as part of the graphic arts and media production process, or you can use a popular spreadsheet application to drive your workflow. The concepts explored in this book are framed within the context of a multimedia professional working on the Web or in broadcasting, but they are relevant to anyone responsible for a growing library of content, be it audio-visual, text, or financial.
*Solutions to build your own tools instead of buying off-the-shelf software solutions
*Real-world examples and case studies explore the usefulness of the tools
*Author Cliff Wootton has been building tools and applications for producing and delivering multimedia content for the last 25 years

Learn all about Codecs--how they work, as well as design and implementation with this comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to compression. After reading this book, you will be able to prepare and distribute professional audio and video on any platform including streamed to the web, broadcast on-air, stored in PVRs, Burned onto CD-ROMs or DVDs, delivered by broadband, or viewed in Kiosk applications, PDA devices, and mobile phones.
Key benefits:
* Learn from an award-winning technologist for a top media company who knows how to explain codecs in terms you can understand
* This entry-level guide contains clear explanations and hundreds of diagrams--no math background needed! Also includes a comprehensive glossary which serves as a useful reference to many technical terms and jargon you will encounter
* Learn how to choose the right technique to get the most out of your compression system--saving both storage space and money

Provides a professional-level reference to the Samsung ARTIK API, as well as to other aspects of interest to developers such as the file systems, the operating system internals, various available interfaces, input/output, and the hardware itself. This is the perfect book for experienced programmers and developers who want to jump in and work with Samsung's new ARTIK product line to create Internet of Things devices and applications. It is also a perfect follow-up resource for new-to-the-field developers who are just getting past the beginning stages of learning the ARTIK. Samsung ARTIK Reference begins with a concise overview of the hardware and the various developer reference boards that are available. Attention then shifts to operating system internals, modes such as sleep and startup, and the various file systems and their parameters that are available for developers to adjust. Also included is a reference of API calls, guidance on input and output, documentation of serial, audio, graphic, and other interfaces. There is extensive reference to online resources with annotation and commentary guiding the learning process in many directions for further study. What You Will Learn Install the ARTIK toolkit and prepare to develop Manipulate the inner workings of the ARTIK operating system Look up and refer to details of the ARTIK API specification Perform input and output over the peripheral interface buses Build embeddable applications in support of IoT devices Embed the ARTIK modules into your own hardware products Who This Book Is For Samsung ARTIK Reference is for experienced developers wanting to understand and begin working with ARTIK. The book is especially of interest to those wishing to interact with ARTIK modules from within their own applications and web services.

Discover which ARTIK modules to use for various applications, and how to produce code for them. This book goes beyond the information previously available online, efficiently guiding developers from initial setup of their development environment to product development and prototyping in no time. Beginners will find helpful background insights into foundation technology and useful reference information is included for more advanced developers. Samsung's announcement of the new ARTIK modules for IoT has generated tremendous interest in the developer market for wearable and other consumer or industrial devices. This book provides the perfect tutorial-based introduction to the ARTIK family of "Systems on Modules," which integrate powerful microprocessors, memory, wireless connectivity, and enhanced security on to very small form factor boards. With Beginning Samsung ARTIK as your guide, take the next steps to creating great solutions with an ARTIK. What You'll Learn Use terminal emulators to access the command line and talk to the device Establish Wi-Fi connectivity with a wireless network Upgrade the operating system and install additional software Bring up Eclipse IDE and create a cross-compiler toolchain on Mac OS X Cross-compile for the ARM processors in the ARTIK modules using Arduino IDE with libArduino to C Use C to access the ARTIK hardware via a file based API Use Node.js and Python inside the ARTIK module Integrate applications with the Samsung SAMI data aggregation hub Use Temboo to generate IoT software solutions that can be downloaded and compiled natively inside the ARTIK Debug applications with software and hardware probes Who This Book Is For Moderately experienced developers wanting to understand ARTIK and how to interact with it from within their own apps or web services.